The Virginia Creeper is a beautiful plant; the stems have five leaflets and are pleasantly attractive, especially in May when they are still a fresh, spring green. However, this pleasantly attractive ...

Q: My daughter and her husband have two very large vines growing in the yard of the new home they purchased. The vines seem overgrown, and we’re wondering how much to cut back. We even wonder if they ...

A difficult spot for plants is that narrow space between the house or garage and the sidewalk. An enjoyable yet tough native vine that might work is the variegated Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus ...

I have a runaway vine in my garden and it grows over shrubs and up trees and fences. How do I get rid of it? It sounds like you have a smilax vine. There are 12 species of smilax in Florida and nine ...

Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is a perennial native, woody, deciduous vine used by home gardeners as an ...

Leaves of three, let it be. That’s the common expression to avoid run-ins with poison ivy and poison oak — common toxic-to-the-touch plants found in North Carolina’s Triangle area and beyond. Virginia ...

Trumpet creeper has been called “rambunctious” and “a thug” by home gardeners far and wide, but we desert gardeners adore plants that survive and even thrive through our brutal summers. Trumpet ...

For me, the cardinal creeper, or Ipomoea × multifida, ticks every box. Fast-growing, showy and colorful, this vine delivers serious impact from a small investment. I’ve grown it many times in pots ...

Virginia creeper is typically harmless, but for at least one reader, it causes a horrible rash similar to that of poison ivy. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor I received strong criticism from a ...